Well, my personal mission statement is that we want marriage equality in all 50 states. We want it not to be a state-by-state issue. We don’t want it to be something the majority is voting on. I don’t think the civil rights of any minority should be in the hands of any majority.

Ferguson frames marriage equality as a civil-rights question rather than a matter of local preference or popular vote. By rejecting a “state-by-state” approach, he argues for uniform legal recognition—implying that fundamental rights should not vary by geography. His insistence that minority rights should not be “in the hands of any majority” echoes a core liberal-democratic principle: constitutional protections exist to prevent majoritarian politics from overriding equal citizenship. The quote also functions as activist messaging, translating a complex legal landscape into a clear moral claim about equality, dignity, and the limits of democratic decision-making when basic rights are at stake.